Netanyahu's unholy alliance with Europe's 'anti-semitic' far right

In a January survey, the Austrian Freedom Party came in first place with 28% support. The Swedish Democrats polled close to 18% last December. “The Swedish Democrats and the Austrian Freedom Party have very questionable pasts. They are still perceived as racists and anti-Semitic by many,” says Yehuda Ben-Hur Levy, the Clara Marina O'Donnell fellow at the Centre for European Reform and a long-time observer of the European far Right. “This is to some extent a way to legitimate themselves – saying, ‘If we go to Israel, you can’t really claim that we are anti-Semitic’.”